This post offers an interview of Tonee Ndungu, the founder and CEO of a digital platform called Kytabu, which Crunchbase describes as "a textbook subscription application that allows students to rent preinstalled textbooks on android tablets and desktops." The interview focuses on equity and especially education for girls, raising a particularly good point: "our cultures and our systems are permeated with the idea that women are meant for the house and men for the workplace (but) because education focuses on the workplace, women are excluded." So, he says, "We created Girls-4-Girls as an intervention for girls who are either taking care of their siblings or for some other reason unable to go back to class, so they can learn from home."
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